neon genesis evangelion

Escaflowne definitely one of my favorites from that era. Yoko Kanno music. Not that subversive or ground breaking, just wonderful genre work.

Lain and FLCL up there as greats as well, second the recs

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP7drUdtmvWB9R4N-1ct-ig/videos
ahem

remember this being amazing for the first seven eps or so but haven't watched it in like twenty years so maybe give this a try?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efbgvorT3fA&t=523s

er, that's The Hakkenden, searchable on ytube as Hakkenden (Pioneer Dub)

I really should try to finish FLCL, weirdly I only ever watched it while I was sick.

As for EVA, I feel like there's a bit of a lull starting around ep 16, but holy smokes at the end of ep 19!!

all my friends are watching this now and asking me questions about where it's heading/what to expect and it's a lot of fun to lie to them

Is Shinji screaming the new TETSUUUUOOOOO?

Just finished the series. Is there a consensus on the last two episodes, i.e. missed opportunities that are rectified with End of Evangelion (which I'm still to watch)?

there is no consensus on anything iirc

should i not watch this on netflix if possible? or is that just nerd shit i won’t care about? i think i torrented it a few years ago and have it somewhere on my hd

Torrents are the most authentic source of anime short of fansubs on VHS ripped from a laserdisc source

Watch it on Netflix it’s great

Yes.

Ok cool thx

Just finished the series. Is there a consensus on the last two episodes, i.e. missed opportunities that are rectified with End of Evangelion (which I'm still to watch)?

― GRETA GABBO (Leee), Saturday, June 29, 2019 7:03 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the last two episodes and end of evangelion happen concurrently. that's all there is to know

Discussing this with new first time viewers has been a total joy. No one ever successfully anticipates just how far down/in it ends up going.

What the hell did I just watch, I mean, WHAT HAPPENED TO PEN PEN.

joined with the universal mind as well (i hope)

The relaunch of this has sent me down an Anime rabbit hole. I watched 'Belladonna of Sadness' for the first time this weekend and I'm still reeling.

I would be so down with an Anime poll on this borad.

anime features were uh featured on the animated features and shorts poll I started and Leee finished for me a few years back; I think it'd be fun to do a sequel for all serialized animation

Animated Creatures: ILX's top 100 animated films (results thread)

really looking back, anime features probably suffered badly from the size of the turnout

a sequel for all serialized animation

Would love this.

ditto

Had no idea Silby, thanks! (got my search keywords wrong)

Think we could do with a sequel tbh

maybe this was discussed upthread but just put end of eva on - they changed that line :|

the last one?! :o

yeah I was not expecting "I feel great!"

lol

lol

meant the one at the start, can't speak to the end

can't bring myself to watch the retranslation of end of eva, the old manga entertainment one was perfect and had a lot of care put into it

also i hate the new series translation. hate it hate it hate it

I have End of Eva on a DVD I bought from a closing blockbuster so I will stick with that version. What could you possibly change that line to?

"Wow, whoopsie daisy!"

"I'm a little stinker!"

"I've made a grave error!"

haha yeah, just checked myself. the other that line, got it.

new one is a literal translation of 「最低だ､俺って」, I guess. so, the whole show is like this now?

last line is slightly different too.

>:(

how gross

how rude

End of Evangelion, 1997
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leeu3h3NRc1qdlkgg.gif

@silby any movement on the animated serials poll?

thx for reminder, I haven't done anything as regards it. I think it'd be good to wait until clemenza's political films poll hits voting to open a nomination thread. Too many polls rolling at once makes people cranky.

oh wait, it has done so. Maybe I'll start a thread soon then, hmm

Damn it, I'm going to have "Komm, süsser Tod" stuck in my head for days.

my gf is teasing me for "watching hentai" because i like this show 凸(｀△´＋）‎

As a lifelong committed melancholic I’m disappointed I only just watched this for the first time. And yeah “Komm, susser Tod” was great and I’ve cued it up on YouTube a bunch.

https://media.kidozi.com/unsafe/600x600/img.kidozi.com/small/27183375/94037,36,2,0,62,186.55319148936,219.2,26.723404255319,0,f6d69e8fe4c3dfa80697f37b659c64b8/merchantimagenew/8698-kids-sweatshirt-white.jpg

can anyone recommend any particularly good writing/podcasts or anything about this?

christ, i watched the last 4 episodes of the show plus the end of evangelion yesterday afternoon and maybe vaping mids throughout did not help but boy do i not know what to make of that ending

Well, the Chamber of Guf opened, and Adam and Lilith were there, and uh...

the union of the original angels adam and lilith triggers the third impact aka the human instrumentality project. gendo had adam embedded in his hand, and rei was made from lilith's dna; this would've theoretically allowed gendo to control the course of the third impact so he could be reunited with yui. of course, what ends up happening is rei rejects gendo bc he sucks ass and instead unites with shinji and unit 01. the world ends and everyone sees the person they love the most before they turn into goo/lcl and are joined with the universal consciousness in the black moon cradled by rei, who at this point, being gigantic and having a thousand wings, is basically lilith. shinji falls through the dreamscape of his own unconscious, as documented in episodes 25 and 26 and in the second half of end of evangelion, the result of which is that he decides that even though existing as a human being isolated from the universal consciousness is extremely painful and full of misunderstanding and loneliness, he loved everybody so much he wanted to see them again (this decision also likely hinges on the conclusion of episode 26, where shinji realizes he's capable of loving himself)

it all returns to nothing
it all comes tumbling down tumbling down tumbling down

basically

basically the end of evangelion is shinji's mom giving him a big existential hug

the show ends with him being like "i love everyone" and then the end of evangelion ends with him choking asuka on the shore of a hellscape beach of an lcl sea which i found a little jarring